Morally ambiguous hero/ines?

[fayanora]

I hate it when morally ambiguous characters are just labeled either villains or anti-heros. I think that’s why I like my character Lyria Spellspinner so much. She's cunning, manipulative, secretive, isn't afraid to kill people when she feels it's needed, defies the laws of nature and man by being heavy into the dark arts, befriends dark creatures,

Comments

[neko_no_baka]

Yeah, there's always this tendency to write off morally ambigious (or as I like to call them, more realistic) characters as anti-heroes. I think it comes from the fact that anti-heroes was coined when fiction used a lot of character-types, in order to subvert those narratives. How much it holds up in current writing, when more and more of us are insisting on writing more in depth, complex, and, well, realistic characters in fantasy and all forms of fiction